A DUI sweep by Lakewood police Saturday night netted a chronic offender whose record includes at least seven arrests for drinking and driving.

Michael Wiley, 46, had a blood-alcohol level about one-and-a-half times the legal limit when Lakewood police arrested him on suspicion of driving under the influence, police spokesman Steve Davis said Tuesday.

Wiley has been arrested for driving under the influence in Colorado five times since 1988, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. He was arrested for the same offense at least twice in Wyoming.

He was one of 18 people arrested in the sweep, a saturation patrol that the Colorado State Patrol organized involving the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Lakewood, Wheat Ridge and Arvada, Davis said.

Wiley’s DUI record could result in a hefty prison sentence. A Colorado law passed in 2015 makes the fourth drunken-driving charge in a lifetime a felony punishable by up to six years in prison.

“This was not his first arrest. There was certainly a pattern there,” Davis said. “This type of arrest shows us that we still have an issue as a society with drinking and driving.”

Denver Sheriff Patrick Firman's resignation this week culminated years of mistrust from deputies and community activists, who said that was the price of filling the position with a man who was never the right person for the job.